Conference Agenda
Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).
Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 20th Sept 2024, 05:53:08am AEST
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Session Overview |
| Date: Wednesday, 02/Oct/2024 | |
| 1:30pm - 2:00pm | Registration: Day 1 Location: R.D. Watt Building |
| 2:00pm - 2:30pm | Welcome Day 1: Introduction to Policy & Internet Conference 2024 Location: R.D. Watt Building Session Chair: Jonathon Hutchinson Session Chair: Joanne Gray |
| 2:30pm - 3:00pm | Doctoral Session 1: Student Panel Location: R.D. Watt Building Session Chair: Kylie Pappalardo Presentations from higher degree researchers (Postgraduates and PhD candidates). |
| 3:15pm - 4:00pm | Doctoral Session 2: Student Panel Location: R.D. Watt Building Session Chair: Chris Chesher |
| 4:00pm - 4:45pm | Doctoral Session 3: Student Panel Location: R.D. Watt Building Session Chair: Justine Humphries |
| 5:00pm - 6:00pm | Keynote: Professor Julia Powles Location: R.D. Watt Building Session Chair: Joanne Gray Julia Powles is the Director of the UWA Tech & Policy Lab and Associate Professor of Law and Technology at UWA Law School. Her research focuses on privacy, intellectual property, internet governance, and the law and politics of data, automation, and artificial intelligence. |
| 6:00pm - 7:30pm | Social 1: Cocktail Reception Location: R.D. Watt Building |
| Date: Thursday, 03/Oct/2024 | |
| 9:00am - 9:30am | Day 2: Registration and Coffee Location: R.D. Watt Building |
| 9:30am - 11:00am | Day 2 Session 1: Paper Presentations Location: R.D. Watt Building Session Chair: Milly Stilinovic |
| 11:00am - 11:15am | Day 2 Morning Tea: Break Location: R.D. Watt Building |
| 11:15am - 1:00pm | Day 2 Session 2: Everyday Internet & Policy Location: R.D. Watt Building Session Chair: Jonathon Hutchinson |
| 1:00pm - 1:45pm | Social 2: Day 2 Lunch Location: R.D. Watt Building |
| 1:45pm - 3:15pm | Day 2 Session 3: Charles Perkins Centre Truth Decay Node Presents: The psychology of online arguments and narratives Location: R.D. Watt Building Session Chair: Jonathon Hutchinson This session presents the latest interdisciplinary research on online influence including a series of talks that will examine how online arguments, images and narratives shape beliefs, and guidelines for countering the spread of dangerous belief systems. The session includes talks from:
J. Hunter Priniski (University of California Los Angeles) on ‘Online network topology shapes personal narratives and hashtag generation’ Tom van Laer and Sheena Shidu (University of Sydney, Business School) on ‘The Unmoderated Zeitgeist - Learnings from Self-Published e-Books’ Zach Horne (University of Edinburgh) on ‘Crowdsourcing persuasive arguments’ Marco Castelli and Paulina Kowalicka (University of Milan) on ‘Guidelines to Reduce the Spread of Online Extremism and Disinformation Among Middle-Aged Individuals: Insights from Project SMIDGE’. |
| 3:15pm - 3:30pm | Day 2 Afternoon Tea: Break Location: R.D. Watt Building |
| 3:30pm - 5:15pm | Day 2 Session 4: Paper Presentations Location: R.D. Watt Building Session Chair: Nadia Tjahja |
| 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Social 3: Conference Dinner Location: Courthouse Hotel Australia Street, Newtown Dinner and drinks at Courthouse Hotel Australia Street Newtown (self-funded). |
| Date: Friday, 04/Oct/2024 | |
| 9:00am - 9:30am | Day 3: Registration and Coffee Location: R.D. Watt Building |
| 9:30am - 10:00am | Day 3 Books: Launches Location: R.D. Watt Building Session Chair: Jonathon Hutchinson A collection of recent books from the Discipline of Media and Communication:
Fantasies of Virtual Reality: Untangling Fiction, Fact, and Threat by Marcus Carter and Ben Egliston Governing Social Virtual Reality Preparing for the Content, Conduct and Design Challenges of Immersive Social Media By Joanne E. Gray, Marcus Carter and Ben Egliston Twitch By Mark Johnson Transformational Health Communication By Olaf Werder |
| 10:00am - 11:30am | Day 3 Fireside Chat: Internet & Policy Futures Location: R.D. Watt Building Session Chair: Kimberlee Weatherall A discussion on the future of policy and the Internet. |
| 11:30am - 12:00pm | Demonstration: International Digital Policy Observatory Location: R.D. Watt Building Session Chair: Terry Flew Session Chair: Rob Nicholls |
| 12:00pm - 12:30pm | Conference: Conclusion Location: R.D. Watt Building Session Chair: Jonathon Hutchinson Dr Jonathon Hutchinson to close the conference and connect the past two days to the Policy & Internet Journal. |
| 12:30pm - 5:00pm | Social Activities: Sydney Opera House and Taronga Zoo Location: Circular Quay Social activities including bus to Circular Quay, Walk to Opera House for photos
and Ferry to Taronga Zoo. |
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